Ali La Pointe

Ali Ammar (14 May 1930-8 October 1957), also known as Ali La Pointe, was an FLN leader during the Algerian War.

Biography
Ali La Pointe was a petty criminal from Miliana, French Algeria, and in 1952 he was arrested. In 1954, when the Algerian War broke out between France and the rebel FLN movement fighting for Algerian independence, La Pointe joined the FLN in Barberousse Prison. On 28 December 1956 he killed Amedee Froger, Mayor of Boufarik. In 1957, he also killed 17 people in a terrorist attack on an Algiers dance club.

Death
Colonel Yves Godard tracked La Pointe down to the casbah (historical district) of Algiers and paratroopers acting on a tip-off informer's information attacked his house. Alongside three companions, he was killed when the French bombed the house after he refused to surrender.